{"id":204,"date":"2020-03-25T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=204"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:55:56","slug":"will-cannabis-workers-be-eligible-for-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/25\/will-cannabis-workers-be-eligible-for-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Cannabis Workers Be Eligible for Coronavirus Unemployment Benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail\">\n<p>[\u2026] With so many out of work and many more likely joining them in the coming weeks, Americans are looking to Washington D.C. to provide a lifeline. One bill, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), has already been signed into law by President Trump. This provides $1 billion in additional funds for states to direct toward bolstering their unemployment insurance programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been working to pass additional relief legislation\u2014but when it comes to the federal government and the cannabis industry, the relationship is not usually cozy. Will those relief funds find their way to cannabis workers who are out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that marijuana remains an unlawful substance under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, there has been concern that the relief under the FFCRA would not be available to cannabis businesses and, therefore, would not be available to support cannabis workers,\u201d\u00a0<a title=\"Linda Hollinshead\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/lindabhollinshead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linda Hollinshead<\/a>, an attorney and Partner at Duane Morris LLP told\u00a0<i>mg<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law provides that any administrative grants transferred to the account of a state may be used \u2018by such State only for the administration of its unemployment compensation law,\u2019 suggesting that the money is being provided to support a state\u2019s program, and that the federal government will not dictate how it is spent or what industries will be recipients of those grants,\u201d Hollinshead said. \u201cAs a result, it does not appear that the additional availability of these federal funds under the FFCRA jeopardizes an individual\u2019s ability to have access to state unemployment benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mgretailer.com\/cannabis-news\/will-cannabis-workers-be-eligible-for-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the\u00a0<em>mg Magazine<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[\u2026] With so many out of work and many more likely joining them in the coming weeks, Americans are looking to Washington D.C. to provide a lifeline. One bill, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), has already been signed into law by President Trump. This provides $1 billion in additional funds for states to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/25\/will-cannabis-workers-be-eligible-for-coronavirus-unemployment-benefits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will Cannabis Workers Be Eligible for Coronavirus Unemployment Benefits?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[238,31,239],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cannabis","tag-employment-law","tag-unemployment-benefits"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}